Falling animation

I know it's irrational (that's what a phobia is, by definition), but I've got a fear of falling and the constant lovely-animated falling deaths just give me the shakes. Is there any way to suggest an option to just fade to black instead of showing those? They redid the entire sage icon due to reports of trypohphobia. Surely an option to just not display these shouldn't be insanely difficult. Should it?

There is a easy solution to your problem, do you know how to navigate to the uninstaller?

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Originally Posted by Shenayim

Is there any way to suggest an option to just fade to black instead of showing those?

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only thing i can think of is contacting square through the support center and asking them
https://support.na.square-enix.com/contact.php?id=5382

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

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have you ever tried not being an asshole?

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Originally Posted by ryouma17

have you ever tried not being an asshole?

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This has little to do with being an asshole. I am afraid of heights ergo i will never go sky diving cause i would probably pass out from the fear. That should be the normal human response, right? If you are terribly afraid of something then you avoid it. Ofc you can face it but OP isn't doing that in this case cause they want reality to change to avoid their fears.

Truth is if you are afraid of falling, in this case, the game portraits a HUGE amount of that. Especially in cutscenes. So should we change that too? Or does OP skip every cutscene cause it could have a person falling somewhere in it? What about emotes?

If they have a negative reaction to such stuff then this is simply not the right game for them and i say that with only the best of intentions. Cause we will have falling animations again, over and over everywhere and SE will surely not change the death animation. They don't even give us good settings for colorblind people and that is a HUGE chunk of disabled people playing the game compared to people with phobias.

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

There is a easy solution to your problem, do you know how to navigate to the uninstaller?

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damn and that comes from me and I love to be as blunt as possible

How about dont be an absolute donkey and stay quiet if you dont have anything to say ?

Being cringy edgy for likes is gross

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

This has little to do with being an asshole. I am afraid of heights ergo i will never go sky diving cause i would probably pass out from the fear. That should be the normal human response, right? If you are terribly afraid of something then you avoid it. Ofc you can face it but OP isn't doing that in this case cause they want reality to change to avoid their fears.

Truth is if you are afraid of falling, in this case, the game portraits a HUGE amount of that. Especially in cutscenes. So should we change that too? Or does OP skip every cutscene cause it could have a person falling somewhere in it? What about emotes?

If they have a negative reaction to such stuff then this is simply not the right game for them and i say that with only the best of intentions. Cause we will have falling animations again, over and over everywhere and SE will surely not change the death animation. They don't even give us good settings for colorblind people and that is a HUGE chunk of disabled people playing the game compared to people with phobias.

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It has everything to do with being an asshole. Telling people to "uninstall" isn't productive. Either help them out, or tell them that there's nothing that can be done, and be a decent human being while doing either.

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Originally Posted by Shenayim

I know it's irrational (that's what a phobia is, by definition), but I've got a fear of falling and the constant lovely-animated falling deaths just give me the shakes. Is there any way to suggest an option to just fade to black instead of showing those? They redid the entire sage icon due to reports of trypohphobia. Surely an option to just not display these shouldn't be insanely difficult. Should it?

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Try to avoid areas/zones that displays a certain level of height.

I honestly doubt they’d go further to accomodate this unfortunately & quite frankly not every game, place or person may be able to accomodate to every part of your needs.

It all honestly comes at the end to your sense of awareness, how to best control that phobia (if given you’re taking therapy) and last but not least avoid those triggers as best as possible.

We cannot entirely control or modify external circumstances but you have control over your mind & will power; just avoid heights as much as possible.

Do your best.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

It has everything to do with being an asshole. Telling people to "uninstall" isn't productive. Either help them out, or tell them that there's nothing that can be done, and be a decent human being while doing either.

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"I want more content to do" "just uninstall bro"

"you have a fear of something thats regulary portrayed in the game? sorry but this might not be the game for you" "wtf dont tell people to uninstall"

:)

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

It has everything to do with being an asshole. Telling people to "uninstall" isn't productive. Either help them out, or tell them that there's nothing that can be done, and be a decent human being while doing either.

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Then tell me what the other option is for a person that gets quite often very uncomfortable through triggers inside the game? They could learn to live with it but as seen by the forum post that's not their preferred route of dealing with their problem. SE won't solve it for them so the most logical way to deal with it is avoiding the trigger which is the game.

There are thousands of phobias out there, many of them more common than what OP has. The fear of blood for example, yet we see (rarely) blood ingame. Or the fear of spiders, which is also one of my big phobias and they are ingame.

While the "then just quit" sounds probably very rude it is a viable solution if OP doesn't want to confront and overcome these triggers. Cause they won't go away. There will be a cutscene again where someone falls with no warning and it will make them uncomfortable again. The question is how mentally draining this is for OP, some people get deeply affected mentally and even physically through stress induced by phobias. High heart rate and high blood pressure just being two of the side effects which is how you probably know not that healthy.

So yes, uninstalling the game would be an easy solution to that. The much harder solution is to confront the fears. And while i have sympathy for OP, there is no chance that SE will ever change any of that.

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

This has little to do with being an asshole. I am afraid of heights ergo i will never go sky diving cause i would probably pass out from the fear. That should be the normal human response, right? If you are terribly afraid of something then you avoid it. Ofc you can face it but OP isn't doing that in this case cause they want reality to change to avoid their fears.

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Sky diving is one thing - just falling. The game has a LOT of other things OP can enjoy that have nothing to do with their fear and they have every right to continue to enjoy AND to ask for something that should be easy enough to implement.
Also not everyone can “just face it”.

And for OP, Id go for email contact, nobody gives a crap about what this forum says.

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Originally Posted by SassyAssassin

Sky diving is one thing - just falling. The game has a LOT of other things OP can enjoy that have nothing to do with their fear and they have every right to continue to enjoy AND to ask for something that should be easy enough to implement.
Also not everyone can “just face it”.

And for OP, Id go for email contact, nobody gives a crap about what this forum says.

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That is true and trust me i wouldn't mind at all if they actually changed the death animation to something that suits OP. But this is not very likely, not at all. Most likely outcome is that they tell them that they can't do anything about it. Which would put OP again right where they started.

And i absolutely agree, they have probably friends and things they enjoy ingame. Abandoning that is probably not in their interest. So they do have to face their fears, SE won't do it for them.

I mean i would recommend therapy as a long term solution but that isn't doing anything for OP right now. And i know that there are many who can't afford it, sadly.

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

That is true and trust me i wouldn't mind at all if they actually changed the death animation to something that suits OP. But this is not very likely, not at all. Most likely outcome is that they tell them that they can't do anything about it. Which would put OP again right where they started.

And i absolutely agree, they have probably friends and things they enjoy ingame. Abandoning that is probably not in their interest. So they do have to face their fears, SE won't do it for them.

I mean i would recommend therapy as a long term solution but that isn't doing anything for OP right now. And i know that there are many who can't afford it, sadly.

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All you had to do was respond in a genuine way instead of trying to act like a smartass.

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

All you had to do was respond in a genuine way instead of trying to act like a smartass.

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My point still stands tho, the easiest way to deal with this is to avoid the game. SE won't change the game for this, they might not want to face their fears as far as we can tell. So what else can they do?

It's not even that it is just the fear of height, it is the fear of falling itself which is something the game will never be able to avoid. Just think back to Illbert. The little girl falling when the priest pushed her. There is no trigger warning or anything so what will OP do in these cases?

Others can't fix their problem for them, especially not SE. Only they can choose to either confront their fears or well as hard as it sounds avoid them and quit. SE won't provide a happy end in this case. But again, i would be happy if proven wrong in this. Maybe then all the colorblind folks can also get better settings.

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Originally Posted by Shinkuno

"I want more content to do" "just uninstall bro"

"you have a fear of something thats regulary portrayed in the game? sorry but this might not be the game for you" "wtf dont tell people to uninstall"

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Not sure why you're quoting me with that. I've never told anyone to uninstall for any reason, much less over people asking for more content.

Is this some poor attempt at bait?

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Not sure why you're quoting me with that. I've never told anyone to uninstall for any reason, much less over people asking for more content.

Is this some poor attempt at bait?

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I think that was meant at me and they were agreeing with you, like a supporting statement to your argument.

The first sentence is basically a analogy to showcase that telling someone to uninstall is stupid with which they want to support your points. Cause you know people wanting more content is valid feedback and such should be probably asking for changes to consider phobias?

I don't agree with that still cause phobias are a minority and can't be all taken into consideration cause they are so numerous, unlike content demands which are basically why we all are playing the game overall. Or most players at least, i know Titanmen only plays XIV for the forums.

OP, do you mean the death animation in combat?
I cannot say much, but this game stores its animations in its files. Using certain methods, others have found ways to simply replace that death animation with other animations entirely. Some of these have been quite comical, and not scary at all. I won't encourage you to look into those, because that would be against the rules and I'm all about following rules. Merely suggesting that it's quite easy for a bored fan to do, so who knows! Maybe one day SE will get around to implementing different animations or something.

Hope this helps!

I have a friend who gets severe motion sickness whenever we go through the doors of Smileton, so his response is to always close his eyes and listen for the end so he can keep going. Best thing OP can probably do is close their eyes until they hear the landing sound and your character's grunt.

I enjoy realism so a fade to black is too abstract for me. Everyone should get that blood curdling scream that one Aura Male voice has as they fall to their death.

To remind you of the danger of falling off.

Just out of curiosity but whys it in issue now? I mean to know about the sage issue which was two years ago surely you would've at least brought it up then?

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

There is a easy solution to your problem, do you know how to navigate to the uninstaller?

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I cant believe you'd alienate the Acrophobia community like this smh

They can't cater to everyone. Changing a simple logo vs what op is asking is quite different. Op can simply not look at her screen during cutscenes or just skip them.

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Originally Posted by Toutatis

They can't cater to everyone. Changing a simple logo vs what op is asking is quite different. Op can simply not look at her screen during cutscenes or just skip them.

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Either that or not die :P

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Originally Posted by Oizen

I cant believe you'd alienate the Acrophobia community like this smh

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It's called basophobia, the fear of falling. You don't have to have the fear of heights to be afraid of falling. Both are actually natural fears in almost every human being cause both height and falling is dangerous. But ofc like with all things there are some people who can deal better with it and people who can deal not that well with it, like OP.

I myself have acrophobia too but i can differentiate between a situation that is "threatening" to me and a game. So you don't see me screaming for SE to remove the sea of clouds or flying altogether.

If you have a deep problem with a game you consume, in my opinion, the best way is not to scream for the world to change to your needs but rather to change yourself. Be that by facing your fears or just leaving. What do people expect? SE taking every phobia into consideration? Many of them more common than the fear of falling. Should trees be removed or toggled from the game cause some people are deeply scared of them? Blood? Spiders? Heights? What about scotophobia the fear of darkness which really many are suffering with? Should we change the Hades fight and just make it bright? Should we remove the concept of dying from the game cause there are people deeply afraid of that?

As much as i feel for anyone who has to deal with phobias, SE won't make it better for you and expecting that is just delusional.

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Originally Posted by ryouma17

have you ever tried not being an asshole?

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This place is full of troll threads and smarmy retorts. Why is it suddenly an issue?